Coat-hanger



H. E. KELLEY.

COAT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17,1921.

1,379,105, Patented May24,1921.

gnoe'nto'a v 8&1? I 1 7 I UNITED STATES HARRIET E. KELLEY, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

GOAT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 24, 1921.

this application is adapted to be used forsuspending coats and like garments, and the invention aims to provide a hanger wherein relative movement between parts thereof'is positively prevented, the construction of the device being such that, when a garment is suspended thereon, the garment will not lose any shape which it may have assumed,

due to peculiarities in the shape of the shoulders and the neck of the wearer.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance withthe invention; Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged from Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The hanger claimed preferably is made of somewhat stiff wire and embodies a base 1 having angularly disposed end members 2 merging into arms 3 which slant toward the base 1 to define prominent projections 4 at the points where the end members 2 join the arms 3, the arms merging into top members 15 and 5, which slant away from the base 1. One top member 15 is bent upon itself to define an angle ,6 and to define a first suspensionmember 7 and a second'suspension membcr 8, located side by side, the members 7 and 8 being connected at their upper end by an eye, 9. The top member 5 is lodged, as shown at 10, in the angle 6 formed by the parts 15 and 7,. and is twisted at its end, as shown at 25, around the other top member 15. The second suspension member 8 is twisted as at 16, around the top member 5,,

the parts 7 and 8 being in contact.

A coat, having been worn, shapes itself to the shoulders, neck and upper portion of the back of the wearer, and the shape thus assumed, it is desirable to retain. When a coat hanger of ordinary bowed construction is resorted to, the coat conforms to the bow of the hanger, and the shape assumed by engagement with the body of the wearer, is lost. There is, therefore, a very good reason for forming the projections indicated at 4, the slant of the arms 3 toward the base 1, creating the projections. There is, further, an ample reason for inclining the parts 1.5 and 5 away from the base 1, since, owing to this construction, the angle at 6 is formed. The part 5 cannot slip tothe right, Fig. 1, because a portion of the said part is lodged at 10 in the angle 6 and is held positively. The suspension member 8 cannot move to the left, because it abuts against the suspension member 7, and the suspension member 8 cannot move readily to the right, because the part 5 is disposed at an angle to the base 1, and at an acute angle to the part 8. secure and positive lock is afforded at the place where the suspension members 7 and 8 are joined to the upper part of the. hanger, and the hanger cannot become distorted owing to the sliding of the coils 25 and 16 on the parts which they surr und.

I claim A coat hanger comprising a base having upstanding end members merging into armswhich slant toward the base to define prominent projections at the points where the end members join the arms, the arms merging into top members which slant away from the base, one topmember being bent upon itself to define an angle and to form first and second suspension members, one top member being lodged insaid angle and on-- ing engaged around the other top member, the second suspension member being engaged around the first specified top member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

. HARRIET E. KELLEY. Witnesses: L. .C. WOLLENWEBER, ARTHUR Kenmrmznn, 

